One more posthumous book by #DavidGraeber. Is he the Tupak of nonfiction?

"As questions of decolonisation rub up against the legacy of Enlightenment thinking in the West, anthropologist David Graeber argues in his posthumous book Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia (to be published early next year) that Enlightenment ideas themselves are not intrinsically European and were indeed shaped by non-European sources."

https://artreview.com/noam-chomsky-on-david-graebers-pirate-enlightenment/

#anthropology #decolonisation #TheWest

Noam Chomsky on David Graeber’s Pirate Enlightenment

Nika Dubrovsky speaks to Noam Chomsky about pirate societies, ‘bewildered herds’ and the fragility of the present in the context of the late anthropologist David Graeber’s final book

One might argue that The Enlightenment was the enlightenment of Europe by the influence of a range of non-European cultures. Not the reverse, as is often claimed.

"David [Graeber] often said that his task was to decolonise the Enlightenment; to change our ideas of what kind of society we would like to live in."

#NikaDubrovsky

https://artreview.com/noam-chomsky-on-david-graebers-pirate-enlightenment/

#decolonisation #TheEnlightenment #TheWest

Noam Chomsky on David Graeber’s Pirate Enlightenment

Nika Dubrovsky speaks to Noam Chomsky about pirate societies, ‘bewildered herds’ and the fragility of the present in the context of the late anthropologist David Graeber’s final book

"Ed Herman, who passed away recently, was the prime author of [Manufacturing Consent]."

#NoamChomsky, 2022

https://artreview.com/noam-chomsky-on-david-graebers-pirate-enlightenment/

Isn't that interesting. Chomsky being much more well known, it's often referenced as being his book. In fact, the introduction to the interview this quote is from does exactly that.

#EdwardSHerman #ManufacturingConsent

Noam Chomsky on David Graeber’s Pirate Enlightenment

Nika Dubrovsky speaks to Noam Chomsky about pirate societies, ‘bewildered herds’ and the fragility of the present in the context of the late anthropologist David Graeber’s final book

Sound familiar?

"Democracy is just regarded as ‘mob rule’, as Lippmann put it; the responsible men have to protect themselves from the roar and trampling of the bewildered herd. Lippmann, incidentally, was the leading liberal public intellectual in the twentieth century, a Wilson, Roosevelt, Kennedy liberal. But he was reflecting the general liberal conception of how the public has to be put in its place as spectators..."

#NoamChomsky, 2022

https://artreview.com/noam-chomsky-on-david-graebers-pirate-enlightenment

#AntiDemocratic #Liberalism

Noam Chomsky on David Graeber’s Pirate Enlightenment

Nika Dubrovsky speaks to Noam Chomsky about pirate societies, ‘bewildered herds’ and the fragility of the present in the context of the late anthropologist David Graeber’s final book